Kit-cat 4: Kit-cat and the Professor

One day, Kit-cat was sitting on a branch of his favourite tree when he saw a very odd looking man come walking through the forest.
The man was wearing a white coat and carrying an odd shaped device that he was pointing at all the birds and animals he saw, speaking into a tube that was attached to the device and listening to it through earphones on his ears.
"Can you understand me?", he was asking, "Can any of you understand a word I'm saying?".
Curious, Kit-cat leapt down from his branch and sticking out a friendly paw to shake the mans hand said, "Hello! My names Kit-cat. What's yours?".
"My goodness", said the man, looking down at his machine with astonishment, "It works! My machine works. I could understand what you were saying perfectly".
"Uhm?", said Kit-cat confused, "Well, ofcourse you can. I'm speaking English aren't I?".
"Oh no, you don't understand", explained the man, "You see this machine that I invented is supposed to translate the language of animals into human language and vice-versa".
"Oh but you don't need that to speak to me", said Kit-cat, taking off the mans earphones while continuing to talk, "I already speak English, see?".
The man stared at Kit-cat; wide eyed, speechless and flabbergasted.
"But...but...but...how?", he asked.
"My mother and father taught me", said Kitcat, "Well my adopted mother and father. They were human like you although the magic of the forest might have helped. Its an enchanted forest you see".
"I don't believe it", said the man, putting down his machine and examining Kit-cat all round, "It must be a trick; ventriloquism perhaps or maybe a hidden, tiny gramphone record".
The man prodded at Kitcat trying to find a hidden door where a gramophone record might be concealed.
"No", said Kit-cat turning round to face him, "Its not a trick, honestly. I really can speak".
"Well then I have to tell the world about it!", said the man excitedly.
Kit-cat started to become worried.
"Oh no, please don't do that", he said, "I don't want all the men who live outside the forest to know about me".
"But dear boy, err, I mean cat", said the man, "I've just discovered a new species of cat that talks. The world of science needs to know about it. You must be studied; notes have to be taken and experiments done".
Now Kit-cat got really nervous.
"Oh no", he said, shaking his head, "I don't want people experimenting on me".
"But you have to be studied", argued the man, "Its in the interests of science".
"And what about my interests?", asked Kit-cat.
"But you'll be famous; documented in science journals and written about in newspapers. People all around the world will know about you", said the man.
"I don't want to be famous", said Kit-cat, "I just want to continue living my peaceful, happy life with my animal friends in the forest".
The man shook his head.
"I'm sorry", he said, "But I really must insist. If you don't want to come with me then I'll have to bring a team of animal experts here to see you".
Then the man, completely forgetting about his translating device, rushed off back the way he had come, through the forest, shouting back over his shoulder as he did,
"Now don't go anywhere. I have to make some enquiries, some phone calls but I'll be back soon with others who can make a proper assesment of you".
Kit-cat started to panic, worrying about what would happen to him if he was caught and taken away to some laboratory to be studied.
Just then, however, from the direction in which the man had gone, Kit-cat heard him crying for help.
"Help! Help!", he was shouting, "Please, someone help me!".
And, running to see what had happened, suddenly Kit-cat saw a large, fearsome forest troll up ahead and it was trying to stuff the man into its troll sack.
"Get in there and be quiet", it was growling, "I'm going to make you into my supper".
"Oh no", said Kit-cat, feeling sorry for the man, "What can I do?".
Just then however, Kit-cat had an idea and, running back through the forest he soon returned carrying the mans translating machine then, putting its earphones over his ears and its tube to his mouth he shouted to the troll,
"Put that man down at once".
The troll turned round and looked at Kit-cat with an amazed look upon its face.
"You're speaking Trollish", it said, "How are you doing that?".
"With this machine that the man invented", said Kit-cat, "He's a wizard".
"A wizard?", said the Troll, growing frightened, "I don't want to upset a wizard. My sister Trollhilda did that once and he turned her into a mouse".
Then the Troll turned his sack upside down, pouring the man out onto the ground.
"Sorry, Wizard", it said to the man, "I thought you were someone else. Please don't turn me into a mouse".
The man just looked dazed and bewildered but, all the same, Kit-cats plan seemed to have worked because then the Troll ran off, terrified, into the forest.
"You're safe now", said Kit-cat, reaching out a paw and helping the man to his feet, "That troll won't harm you anymore. I told him your a wizard".
"Thank you", said the man, "I don't know how to repay you".
"Well, you could promise not to tell anyone about me, please", said Kit-cat, "I really don't want to be experimented on or kept in a laboratory cage".
"Very well", said the man, sighing with disappointment.
"I'm sorry", said Kit-cat, "I know you really wanted to help science".
"Thats alright", said the man, "Besides which, if this forest has trolls in it aswell as talking cats then perhaps it really is enchanted and if thats true then maybe I would serve science better by living here  permanently and studying it myself".
"Thats great", said Kit-cat, smiling, "Then you can make friends with all the animals just like I have and you won't want to put them in cages and experiment on them anymore".
"Well", said the man, scratching his slightly balding head in thought, "Perhaps".
But then the man introduced himself,
"My name is Professor Plunkett", he said, sticking out a hand to shake Kit-cat's.
"My name is Kit-cat", said Kit-cat, "And I'm very happy to meet you".